LDRS Creative | Tulip Foiled Card

Foiling has been one of my crafty loves for a long time! I used the Creative Backgrounds I 6x6 Toner Paper Pack to add a quick background to my card! 

Let's start with the pretty background! I used two colors of foil and two patterns from the Creative Backgrounds I 6x6 Toner Paper Pack. I am completely OBSESSED with the granite-styled pattern and I knew that I wanted to use it on my card. I trimmed it down to the size of an A2 card, placed a piece of rainbow colored foil pretty side up onto the toner design, and ran it through my laminator. Pure perfection! I decided to trim a bit off the bottom and bring in a second foiled design. I repeated my process with a striped pattern and a silver star foil. I love the mix of colors and pattern! 

I stamped the tulip and a couple of butterflies from the Tulip Stamp Set onto a separate piece of cardstock with Raven Hybrid Ink and colored them with alcohol markers. I used the Tulip Coordinating Dies to perfectly cut out my images. 

I stamped my sentiment from the Tulip Stamp Set directly onto my background, but it just didn't stand out against the foil, so I went on to my backup plan! I stamped the sentiments onto white cardstock with Raven Hybrid Ink and cut them out with my scissors and popped them up onto my card with foam for a bit of dimension. And that's it! See you soon! 

LDRS Creative | Life is Better with You

This card is perfect to send to a friend to remind them how amazing they are! I used a handful of LDRS Creative products to make this happy little card. 

Let's start with that amazingly shiny background! I foiled a paper from the Floral Toner Toppers 6x6 Paper Pack with a gold glitter foil and my laminator and set that piece to the side to use for another card. You could definitely use it for this card, but I wanted a bolder background. When you foil the Toner Toppers you're left with a gorgeous negative piece of foil that you simply can't throw away! I trimmed down a piece of paper from the Toner Sheets 6x6 Paper Pack and added the negative piece of foil on top and ran it through my laminator. Now I have a second, bolder background and none of my pretty foil is wasted! 

It's quite simple to finish off the card from here! I popped up a couple of floral images from the Lovely Watercolor Ephemera Pieces and added them to the corners of my card. I stamped a sentiment from the Everyday Sayings Stamp Set with Raven Hybrid Ink and used the Everyday Sayings Coordinating Dies to cut out the sentiment. I love this die set because not only can you cut out the sentiments, but you can cut a shadow piece, too! I added my sentiment with foam tape between the flower pieces and finished the card with Lovely Watercolor Enamel Dots. Thanks for joining me! 

ThermOWeb and Simon Hurley create. Instagram Hop

It's time for an Instagram hop to celebrate the ThermOWeb and Simon Hurley create. collaboration week! After you watch my video be sure to check out Instagram for a hop full of inspiration and giveaways! 

I used the first stencil from the Mosaic Florals Layering Stencils from Simon Hurley create. along with some Prom Queen and Guppy Dye Inks to add color to the flowers. Then I added the second stencil over my panel and used a Stencil Pal to spread Gold Glitz Glitter Gel over the stencil to fill in the background. It looks like tiny golden pebbles! 

I used a piece of Deco Foil Parchment Paper and Gold Deco Foil to foil a Candy Stripes Slimline Toner Card Front. Once my stenciled panel was dry I added it on top of the Toner Card Front with iCraft Foam Tape. I stamped a sentiment from the Simon Hurley create. Sketched Florals Stamp Set and popped it up in the center of my card. 

Don't forget that this is part of an inspiration hop on Instagram! Thanks so much and I'll see you soon!

LDRS Creative | Floral Toner Toppers Card

Nothing beats the magic of foiling! I used a bold pattern from the new LDRS Creative Floral Toner Toppers Paper Pack and created a clean and simple card with a pop of foiled flair! 

If you've never tried foiling now's your chance! There are new Toner Toppers Paper Packs from LDRS Creative in both 6x6 and 4x9 size with gorgeous, easy to foil patterns! I am head over heels for the Floral Toner Toppers - especially this bold pattern! All you need to add foiled goodness to the Toner Toppers is a toner reactive foil. You can find a whole RAINBOW of colors, but I decided to go with gold and keep to a more neutral color palette. I cut my paper from the Floral Toner Toppers 6x6 Paper Pack with the second die in the A2 Diagonal Stitched Layered Card Toppers Die Set and then used my scissors to trim a piece of gold foil slightly larger than my background panel. I placed the foil pretty side up (silver side against the toner printed design) over the background and ran it through my laminator with a parchment paper carrier sheet. 

I wanted to keep the elements on the front of my card simple since I had such a gorgeous, bold background. The Lovely Wildflower Cluster Die Set was just the thing I needed! I mentioned before that I wanted to keep to a neutral color palette, so I thought I would add a pop of black, but the die just wasn't standing out. I tried white and that was worse than just the black, so I decided to go back to an old trick and create a faux background for my die-cut. I cut the vine piece from the Lovely Wildflower Cluster Die Set once from white and twice from black and adhered the black pieces behind the white pieces and slightly offset them - one slightly left and one slightly right. This gives me a shadowed look without any fussy cutting! I adhered it to my background panel hanging off the right side and trimmed off the excess with my scissors. 

I stamped a sentiment from the new Everyday Sayings Stamp Set with Raven Hybrid Ink and used the Everyday Sayings Coordinating Die Set to cut out the sentiment. The die set has two dies for each sentiment so that you can cut close to the sentiment and cut a shadow as well - LOVE THAT! I cut a shadow from black cardstock and added the sentiment with foam tape. I cut a panel of white cardstock with the largest die from the A2 Diagonal Stitched Layered Card Toppers Die Set and adhered all of the pieces to a card base. And that's it! Be sure to watch my video above for lots of foiling tips and tricks. I'll see you soon! 

ThermOWeb Live with Lynnea | NEW Product Release

How EXCITED are you for the new release from ThermOWeb?! There are new Toner Card Fronts, Deco Foil Flock Transfer Sheets, AND Deco Foil Transfer Sheets and I'm going to show them off LIVE on the ThermOWeb YouTube Channel TODAY at 11am CT/12pm ET! 

There are a bunch of new Toner Card Front designs and I could barely choose a favorite! It's been a long time since I made a rainbow themed card, so I chose the wonky rainbow pattern from the new Rainbows Galore Toner Card Fronts and foiled it with the new Mystic Rainbow Deco Foil Transfer Sheets. 

There are so many ways to add interest to foiled backgrounds, but I decided to go simple and create a popped up die cut effect with iCraft 3D Jumbo Foam Tape. 

I die cut a few colors of Deco Foil Flock Transfer Sheets - including the new Midnight Blue Color! - and added the rainbow to my card. A quick sentiment finishes off the card!

I hope you're jumping over the rainbow for these new products! Join me LIVE TODAY at 11am CT / 12pm ET on the ThermOWeb YouTube Channel for the full tutorial! 

ThermOWeb Live with Lynnea | Sweet Treats Card with Toner Card Fronts and Flock

It's Sweet Treats week on the ThermOWeb blog and I have a special project that I'll be sharing LIVE on the ThermOWeb YouTube Channel TODAY at 11am CT/ 12pm ET! 

There is a lot packed in to this (almost) monochromatic card! I did some foiling with a laminator onto a Toner Card Front, masking (with the NEW Pixie Tape!), ink blending, and that background is made up of Flock and Foiled strips! 

I created my foreground panel with a Dainty Hearts Toner Sheet that I foiled, masked off the edges, and ink blended. I wanted to create a special background, so I used a couple of colors of Deco Foil and foiled a scrap piece of a Deco Foil Toner Sheet and cut them into strips. I also cut strips of pink and red Deco Foil Flock and added them to a piece of cardstock covered with an iCraft Easy Cut Adhesive Sheet. 

I die cut both background panels for an extra touch of something special and then colored my sweet images from the Pawsome Stamps Sweet Cupcakes Stamp Set and added them to the card. 

Be sure to join me LIVE on the ThermOWeb YouTube Channel for the full tutorial! This was such a fun card to make! 

ThermOWeb Live | Two For One Toner Card Front Backgrounds

I always get asked how I use left over Deco Foil and I'm going live on the ThermOWeb YouTube Channel on Wednesday the 26th at 11am CT/ 12pm ET to show you how to easily get two cards with one piece of foil and a Toner Card Front! 

Deco Foil Toner Card Fronts are the easiest way that I know of to make two for one backgrounds! I was able to make two cards with one Toner Card Front and one piece of Deco Foil - and they look completely different!

I added some quick ink blending to a Rosy Days Deco Foil Unity Toner Card Front with Distress Oxide Inks and then buffed off the excess ink with a microfiber cloth. I foiled the Rosy Days Deco Foil Unity Toner Card Front with Gold Glitter Unity Deco Foil using my laminator and a piece of Deco Foil Parchment Paper. It's so pretty! 

I never like to waste pretty things and the Gold Glitter Foil is my favorite! I grabbed a solid Deco Foil Toner Sheet and foiled the left over pattern from my Toner Card Front and now I have the reverse pattern with some black peeking through! You could foil the panel again with another color, but I really loved the black and gold. 

I finished off the cards with a simple die cut sentiment. I hope you'll join me LIVE on the ThermOWeb YouTube Channel for the full step by step tutorial! 

ThermOWeb | You Are Loved Foiled Cards

Clean and simple with a pop of flair is my go-to card making style and ThermOWeb Toner Sheets are the easiest way to add a pop of something special! 

The Love Blooms Toner Sheets are one of my favorite patterns. The hearts are so bold and wonky and just my style. I couldn't decide if I wanted to foil the white or the kraft ... so I decided to do both! This card design is simple and easy and took me no time at all to make two cards full of Deco Foil goodness!

I pre-heated my laminator so that it would be nice and hot and prepped my Love Blooms Toner Sheets by wiping them with a microfiber cloth. Once my laminator was ready I placed a piece of Pink Melon Deco Foil face up over the Love Blooms Deco Foil Toner Sheet and ran it through with a piece of Deco Foil Parchment Paper. I repeated the process with the Love Blooms Deco Foil Kraft Toner Sheet. I'm always so excited when I peel back the foil and have a pretty foiled background! 

I like to add things to my Toner Sheet backgrounds to amp up the design, but not something that will cover up a bunch of the pattern. I used the Pink & Main Heart Spotlight Cover Die and cut two pieces of white cardstock and I love how the Love Blooms Toner Sheets peek through! 

The glam doesn't stop with the background! I decided to add a foiled die cut sentiment. I foiled a piece of a Deco Foil Toner Sheet with Gold Deco Foil and then used the Simon Says Stamp You Are Loved Die to cut the foil. I cut four additional white sentiments for each card and used my iCraft Ultra Bond Liquid Adhesive Pen to stack all the die cut pieces together for dimension. 

I added all of my pieces together using my iCraft Ultra Bond Liquid Adhesive Pen and that's it! Two foiled cards that pack a punch! Thanks for joining me and I'll see you soon!

ThermOWeb Live with Lynnea | Snowflake Cards with Unity Foils

Tis the season for sending thank you cards! I have an easy way to make four foiled snowflake thank you cards! I'll share my step by step process LIVE on the ThermOWeb YouTube Channel on Wednesday the 5th at 11am CT/12pm ET! 

I like to make clean and simple cards with a punch of something special and the Unity Transfer Foils are certainly something special! I LOVE that they glitter!! 

The weeks after Christmas I am busy making and sending thank you cards, so any time I can make a two for one design I will! Cutting a panel in pieces is one of the quickest and easiest ways to make two cards from one panel. Plus it's one of my favorite designs! 

I used a snowflake stencil along with some Deco Foil Transfer Gel Blanco and created both a white and black background. I thought the Deco Foil Unity Silver Glitter Foil would really POP on black and the Gold Glitter Foil would look best on white. I didn't even have to clean my stencil in between applications - I'll show you a little trick for that in the live tutorial! 

I'll see you LIVE on the ThermOWeb YouTube Channel on Wednesday at 11am CT/12pm ET for all the glittery, foiled, snowflake, mass producing goodness! 

ThermOWeb Live with Lynnea | Love Card with Glitz and Laura Kelly

Love is in the air! Join me on the ThermOWeb YouTube Channel on Wednesday December 29th at 11am CT/ 12pm ET for a love themed card featuring Laura Kelly Toner Sheets and Foils along with Glitz Glitter Gel! 

I have used the Laura Kelly Me & My Peeps Stamp Set for customized birthday cards, new home cards, Christmas cards...and now a Valentine's Day card! I love that the people can be colored however you like to represent whomever you want! I created a background using layering stencils with ink and Red Velvet Glitz Glitter Gel to be the backdrop for my cute little people. 

I foiled a Laura Kelly Spotty Dots Toner Sheet with Flamingo Pink Transfer Foil and die cut a portion with a stitched heart die and added my Me & My Peeps characters on top with foam tape. 

I hope you'll join me on Wednesday at 11am CT/12pm ET on the ThermOWeb YouTube Channel for the full tutorial! 

ThermOWeb | Holiday Card with Laura Kelly

Ready for the cutest representation of our family?! ThermOWeb and Laura Kelly goodies make this wintery card too cute for words! 

I love the whimsiness of the Laura Kelly line! I mixed some Transfer Foils, Toner Sheets, and the Me & My Peeps Stamp Set and created our little family on a Holiday card! I transferred Magic Wand Silver Foil onto a Baby Swiss Toner Sheet and Wagon Red Foil onto a Sweet Swirls Toner Sheet. Toner sheets are so versatile because you can do almost anything with them! I trimmed down the Baby Swiss background to the size of an A2 card front and blended on blue ink to create a snowy sky. I used a die from Trinity Stamps to die cut the Sweet Swirls background and create a line of trees. I blended green ink over the die-cut and magically created a row of trees with swirly foiled baubles! 

I stamped out the characters that would make up our family from the Me & My Peeps Stamp Set and colored them with Copic Markers. I love this stamp set! It can be used to create just about any family for just about any occasion! Our family is just me, my husband, our son, and our (FIVE!) kitties! 

I cut a white snow bank and adhered it to the line of trees and popped them up with iCraft 1/16" 3D Foam Tape onto the snowy background. I adhered our little family to the left side of the card with an iCraft Ultra Bond Liquid Adhesive Pen and added a heat embossed sentiment strip from my stash beneath the colored images. And that's it! This card was quick and easy to create and I hope it inspires you to put your family on a card this Holiday season! 

LDRS Creative | Foiled Plaid Background

It's safe to say that I am obsessed with plaid this Holiday season! I have an easy way to add a pop of foil and create a plaid background with an LDRS Creative stencil! 

When I want to create multi toned plaid backgrounds I reach for striped stencils! I started with the Peppermint Stick Stencil and used an LDRS Creative Blender Brush to ink a white panel with Dan-D-Lion Hybrid Ink. The Peppermint Stick pattern is pretty on its own, but it's SUPER fun to rotate the stencil and then add a second layer to create a plaid! You could add the same or a different color ink, but I decided to use some Transfer Gel so that I could add some glittery gold foil to make this a festive Holiday background! 

Ilina Crouse has done some AMAZING blue/teal projects with the Layered Poinsettia Die Set and I wanted to try my hand at it! I know why she loves it so much! I wasn't so sure how my colored cardstocks would piece together, but my jaw dropped to the floor! Blue poinsettias for the win! I cut two blue color combos as I wasn't sure if I wanted to go with a more teal or blue leaning poinsettia and in the end I used them both! The back of the packaging for the Layered Poinsettia Die Set has a fabulous layering guide showing all the pieces in their proper positions, so if you ever get stuck turn the package over to the back! 

I adhered my die-cuts to my plaid foiled background and added a sentiment from the Potted Poinsettia Stamp Set stamped with Iced Tea Hybrid Ink to coordinate with the golden background. Thanks for joining me! I'll see you soon! 

ThermOWeb Live with Lynnea | Plaid Holiday Card with Toner Sheets

I love finding ways to add a bit of glam to ThermOWeb Toner Sheets, so I decided to add some Glitz Glitter Gel to create a plaid pattern! Find out all the details live on the ThermOWeb YouTube channel Wednesday, December 1st at 11am CT/ 12pm ET! 

There are a bunch of techniques and companies mixed and matched on this simple, yet glamorous card! I used Gina K Designs Radiant Red Fancy Foil to add foil to a Deco Foil Candy Stripes Toner Card Front and then created a plaid pattern by stenciling Gold Glitz Glitter Gel over the Miss Ink Stamps Candy Stripe Stencil. 

Isn't it so fun how you can turn a striped pattern into a plaid?! I just love plaid for the Holidays! I love how it can be classic or glamorous! 

I wanted to have glam in my focal point too, so I transferred Radiant Red Fancy Foil onto a Deco Foil Toner Sheet and used the Pink & Main Stacked Snowflakes Die with the Trinity Stamps Big Joy Script Die Set to cut out my pieces from the foiled toner sheet as well as white cardstock. 

Want to learn all the tips, tricks, in and outs of this card? Join me live on the ThermOWeb YouTube channel Wednesday the 1st at 11am CT/ 12pm ET! I'll see you there! 

ThermOWeb and Ink Blot Shop Collab | Adding Foil 3 Ways

There are so many ways to add Deco Foil to your cards. I'm sharing three card backgrounds featuring easy foiling techniques as part of the ThermOWeb and Ink Blot Shop collab! 

The backgrounds of these three cards really shine! Literally! I used three different ways of adding Deco Foil to backgrounds. They're all easy!

I wanted to try a bit of masking withe the Ink Blot Shop Superhero Bursts Stencil, so I sprayed the back of the negative pieces with Pixie Spray and arranged them on my card. I sprayed the back of the Wild Hatch Herringbone Stencil and placed that onto the cardstock on top of the masking stencils and used my Stencil Pal to spread Deco Foil Transfer Gel Blanco over the stencil. I removed the masking pieces and set the panel aside to dry. Once it was dry I transferred a piece of Rainbow Shattered Glass Deco Foil to the background using Deco Foil Parchment Paper and my laminator. 

I used a Let's Get Crafty Gel Pen to outline the bursts so that they would stand out and stamped a face from the Funny Faces Stamp Set in each burst. I stamped sentiments from the Spaced Out Greetings Stamp Set around the bursts and finished off this card with some adorable googly eyes.

My second background technique ends up with two cards! Bonus! I saw the numbers background sheet from the Brutus Monroe Really Radiant Toner Card Front Mixables pack and thought it would pair perfectly with the Teacher Greetings Stamp Set from ink Blot Shop! I transferred a piece of Glass Slipper Deco Foil to the Toner Card Front with my laminator using Deco Foil Parchment Paper. 

I cut the Toner Card Front so that I could get two cards from one background and used my iCraft Ultra Bond Liquid Adhesive Pen to adhere a thin strip of coordinating cardstock to give the eye a "break," I stamped the sentiments using the Teacher Greetings Stamp Set as well as the Spaced Out Greetings Stamp Set. Some pearls help tie everything together! 

Ready for the last foil technique? This one lets you create a full foiled background! I trimmed a piece of a Deco Foil Toner Sheet to the size of an A2 card and transferred Magenta Deco Foil to it using my laminator. I LOVE that I can customize foiled backgrounds to any color! I stepped up the background by heat embossing the Ink Blot Shop Starry Sprinkle Background Stamp onto the foiled background, Be sure to watch my video for tips! 

When paired with my starry background I think the Scribble Circle Stamp Set looks like a fancy planet! I added my "planet" to the left side of my card with 1/16" Jumbo Foam Tape and topped off the card with a sentiment that I stamped and fussy cut from the Greetings to You Stamp Set. 

I hope you've enjoyed coming on this fun foiling journey with me! I'll see you again soon!